Reviewer:
Molly McGee
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April 25, 2015
Subject:
Highly Entertaining
This is the greatest old show.
The basic premise was that all the contestants were women with sob stories trying to outdo each other with how sad their plight was. Usually these women were asking for something relatively small, but the point was the story- it had to be the saddest hard-luck story you ever heard. If the contestant was a widow, married to a military man or had many children, all the better.
At the end, the most pathetic seeming contestant got to be Queen For A Day. They would not only get what they were asking for, but gifts and prizes. Some won trips to Hawaii.
The show ran on radio for years before television, and was widely parodied. TV seemed to add something to the proceedings, though, since all the contestants look uniformly terrified.
This is something you really have to see to believe.